Communication refers to any technology or device that provides assistance to students with communication limitations. Resources include information on different tools and devices, and success stories about incorporating technology to augment and enhance communication in educational settings.

 

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A Principal's Blog

Read how one principal communicates effectively with her students on her blog. Also view other forward-thinking articles from the Alabama Best Practices Center.

Assistive Technology Services in Shawnee Mission School District: Shawnee, Kansas

This brief case study describes how one school district moved away from a referral-based system for student assistive technology needs to a student-centered, team-based solution.

Learning Point Associates

Best Practices: Macomb Intermediate School District

Collaboration at the intermediate school district level is as important to efficient operations and student achievement as it is at the local level. Intermediate school districts can support local efforts by providing professional development opportunities, amplifying technological and instructional support, and managing pilot projects that renew and improve curriculum and instruction. IT and AT collaboration in the Macomb Intermediate School District is providing all three of these services through Begin With ME!, a project that illustrates the value of shared vision, embedded professional development, and constant communication.

Accessible Technologies for All Students

Board-Superintendent Relations: Going Paperless at the Board Table

Phil Ertl, superintendent of the Kiel Area School District in Wisconsin, writes about how issuing laptops and moving toward paperless meetings has led to better informed board members and a more effective school district.

The School Administrator

Building a Partnership for Success

This article tells the story of one district with a wide area network (WAN) in place for administrative purposes, but no such infrastructure for the instructional side. As a result, teachers and administrators were forced to shut their computer systems down, unplug them from jacks for the administrative WAN, plug them into jacks that connected to instructional servers, and reboot their machines. In this district, a superintendent and technology director collaborated to connect the instructional needs of a district with its technology, while creating a model for other superintendents to cultivate top technology talent.

Scholastic

Critical Issue: Enhancing System Change and Academic Success Through Assistive Technologies for K–12 Students With Special Needs

This article describes successful assistive technology initiatives in Wisconsin and Schaumburg School District 54, Illinois, focusing on key elements of effective systemic change to improve schools. It details the promising benefits of assistive technology, evidenced by projects currently in place in Maryland, Kansas, Texas, and Michigan. Readers will consider research-supported and evidence-based answers to questions such as: (1) What are key issues around assistive technology? (2) How can assistive technology stop enabling special needs students' dependency on others and empower them? (3) How can it help in reducing achievement gaps and increasing access? and (4) What are some ways to increase teacher quality and collegial support?

Learning Points

Cyberbullying for Administrators

Demonstrate strong leadership in your school district with a proactive approach towards cyberbullying. Learn how cyberbullying occurs anonymously, which requires new tactics and strategies.

EdTech Locator - Administrators

Use the EdTech Locator to identify where you, your school, or district is located on a continuum of technology integration. Map a course to deepen your technology integration to improve the achievement of all students. In addition, use CITEd's Teacher Self Assessment to help identify your placement on the Ed Tech Locator.

CITEd

Generation YES Blog

Created by Generation YES, this blog works with schools all around the world to plan, implement and enhance student technology programs through innovative curriculum, online tools and research-based support services. Generation YES focuses on student-centered, project-based experiences that impact student's lives and increase student involvement in school and community through technology, as well as improve the use of technology in the school as a whole.

Getting Connected

This article discusses several technology-based practices used by schools and districts to improve communication between administrators, teachers, and parents.

District Administration

Mobile Technologies Webinar

Learn how well schools are preparing students for the jobs of the future. Have students mastered new technologies? Are you keeping up?

Practical Theory: A View from the Classroom

A Philadelphia principal’s blog explores issues in public education from an administrator’s point of view.

Programs Aim to Stop Cyber Bullying

Learn more about the effects of cyber bullying on today’s students, and what steps schools are taking to address the problem.

Resources to Combat Cyberbullying

Teach proper web etiquette to your students by learning new and positive ways of promoting appropriate online communication.

Students 2.0

This blog is written by a global team of students and student teachers that provide their peers with a voice in where the future of education is headed.

YackPack

YackPack is intended to improve educational communication by motivating students, providing quality feedback with ease, and communicating clearly with students, parents, and administrators.

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